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Be Cool
Chili is looking for new horizons and thinks he may have found his niche when his close friend, a fellow mobster who runs an independent record label, is murdered by Russian gangsters. Chili takes over the company, and begins the poor friend's girlfriend.
26 September 1981, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
4 February 1982, Warrensburg, Missouri, USA
11 November 1945, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
13 August 1964, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
17 September 1945, Deer Lodge, Montana, USA
19 February 1985, Winter Park, Florida, USA
10 September 1950, Lawrence, Massachusetts, USA
21 April 1977, Long Branch, New Jersey, USA
27 May 1975, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
26 November 1965, Northbrook, Illinois, USA
January 07, 2011
Be Cool sounds like it should be good, or at least entertaining, but it's neither. It does have some genuinely fun moments, but lacks a strong narrative to hang them off of. The result is empty, full of contrivances, and ultimately unsatisfying.
April 18, 2009
Self-mocking jokes prevail in F. Gary Gray's feisty cinematic version of Elmore Leonard's irreverent Los Angeles based novel.
March 05, 2005
The movie feels more like a cavalcade of personalities than anything resembling a story.
June 08, 2005
The characters are still engaging, but the story is a mess this time around.
February 11, 2012
Be Cool isn't the biting satire that Get Shorty was. It's lighter, hipper, and, yes, more fun.
September 10, 2006
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March 07, 2005
One of the cuddliest, cutest movies you'll ever see about mobsters and murderers.
September 30, 2010
Watered-down sequel isn't meant for kids.
March 04, 2005
It's kind of -- hmmmm, less than good, a little better than not bad, almost all right, mediocre without being grating, sort of in the C-minus-to-C-minus-minus range.
March 07, 2005
You know a sequel isn't working when, ten minutes into the movie, a voice inside your head starts screaming, 'Please make it stop!'
April 06, 2010
I was really glad when it was over.
March 05, 2005
Be Cool lacks both a focus and an edge, making it an amorphous mess.

